The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-01 00:00:00

RO AYL ITALIAN OPEKA, Covent-garden. The nobility, sentry, subscribers, and the public are respect tu ly informed that the Season will close on 6aturday, J my Special Extra Night. Mdlle. Adelina Patti, Madame Didiee ; M. Faure, Signor Graziani, and signor Mario. THIS EVENING (FRIDAY), July 1, will be performed Gounod s Opera, in five acts, FAUST E MARGHICRiTA. Margherita, Adelina Patti; Siebe , Madame Didiee ; Mdlle. Anese ; Mefisto,e e, M. Faure ; Vale;:tino, S i gno r Gr. ; Wagner. Signor Tagliafice; and Faust, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. ''it tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre eta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; snwhithea.tre.`..2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-oac . ; under the porticos f the theatre, which is o p e n from ten to five , an d a t the pncipal musicsellers' and brarians'. THEATRE . ROYAL HAYMARKET.--• Sole Lessee and 2,lanager, Mr, Buckstone. TUTS EVENING. THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. M. U T and Miss L. Azgel. Atter which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames Snowden, elly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Followed by LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. To concaide with TURNING THE TABLES. Mr. Compton, Mr, Howe, Jco Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TH.EA.II:-.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. 'FELTS EVENING. BORN TO GOJD LUCK. Paddy O'Eaffer y, Mr. Dominick Murray. Af e* which, the new pray by John o:Kenford, Esi , THE MONASTERY OF Su. JUSI' : Messrs. Vining, H. M top, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, H. Mellon, W. Bob,ns, . Seyton, Chapman ; Mrs. H. Marston, and lAdile. atolls Colas. 611 r THEA ritE-R0 IC AL, ADE.LPIII.- 1-3.31 e Pronri9tor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, S HAT SPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L. -Toole, Mr. R. Phillips. Folowed by THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry (his original character). Mr. Benjamin Webster, uppo ted by Messrs. A. tiding, J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, caul Bedford, B llington ; 3liss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Belly, /Cc. After which, TILE AREA BELLE, wi11...a Norrible Tale: Messrs. J. L. Too:e, P. Bed/ord, Li. isomer L 1 Woolgar, and Mil. H. Lewis. Commence at 7; p t, OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion. Re• engagement of those ce ebnaed and popular artistes, Mr. an Mrs. Charles Mathews. . Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular mines or Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Char Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. d. Clarke, Mr. P+til Bedford, Mr. ,F. itobinson. Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Johnstone; Miss H rbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss 11. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A SIIEEP IN WOLF'S CLI /THING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Rubinson. At 8, the Comia Drama of USED UP. Messrs. C. Mathews, Ashley, J. Johnstone, Montague, W. Chamberlaine ; Miss Patti Josephs, and Mrs. Frank Aatthews. At 10, LITTLE TODDLEKINS, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth. In Rehearsal, FAUST AND MARGUERITE. An Im morality, bf F. C. Burnant, Esq., in which Mr. and Mts. Charles slathews will appear. SARIS BONNETS for JUNE.—Messrs. JAY'S Manager has h s day returned from Paris with an assortment of th,, most elegant and fashionable Summer Bonnets, selected from the magasins of the first houses in that city. , • JAY'S, The London General 31eurning Warehouse, 217, 219, and 231, Regent-street. June 1, 1861. NOVEL STYLE in FRENCH BONNETS..— French fashion has produced Bonnets for this month of a light gosamer texture. which accimmodate the present style of wearing and displayicg the lady's hair. They are of *he most exquisite variety, and, though still adhering to the favourite colours of black. white, and neutral, are entirely remodelled in shape, size, and substance. Spe ially imported from Paris for JAY'S, The Lcr.;on General Mourning* Warehouse, 21:', :49, and 251, Regent-street. COALS.--Th© LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 9 35. per ton. I Double 203. per ton. Top 225. „ Deep .218. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbonrne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. ryi 4E THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," AL Containing the Latest SPORTING ENTELLIGEZAE, c.,t, be had Every Evening of G. It, GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, July 1, IE6I. THEttSIO3IETER. This day at Two o'clock 65 __ _ Barometer-29.93. VY'TN D -S.W. ; pleasant breeze and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tms DAY. —Morning, —m.—Afternoon, 12h. 10m. To-seoßalow.-Morning, 12h. 38m.—Afternoon, IE. 4m. I t_ 4 LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1861. ..------•-.40. But that the slaughter of the Federals still con tinues to be so very frightful out in that deplorable American seat of war, it would be almcst laughable reading, as we do, among acute last intimations re ceived from New York, under date June 23, " STAN. TON announces that important movements are in pro grese"—together with the usual added hocus-pocus which cannot yet be made public." That kind of official intimation, just as the mail is leaving for Europe, has beta made so often —end hitherto has invariably ended so disas. trously . They are ,always making "important movements" —the phrase used to be (until they were laughed out of it) " strategic movements"— thos e unfortunate Federals. And, besides that, there has always been some untoward impediment, somehow or another, in the way of the progress of thosesame movements being made public. Whenever by the mail ensuing, the result has come to be made public—it has always, we repeat, proved in its cha raster to have been disastrous instead of advantageous to the cause of the Federal Government. Opposed to the Confederate Army, the Army of the Federals has hitherto proved to be little better than what LEIGH HUNT once comically likened a feather bed to, namely, a Great Lubberly Giant. And the Gre at Lubberly Giant over in America somehow na essr contrives to tumble on a feather bed. He is always receiving punishment, and punishment of the most frightful character. According to there l as t accounts, per the China, the Federal loan has aga in been something frightful. Eight thousand men in two days (the 17th and 13th) are acknowledged by the Federals themselves to have been. put hors (1 2 COMbathut the telegram adds the number is believed to be still greater I la fact, a single corps alone (g i ,eicecK's) is known to have suffered losses to th e ex t e nt of four thousand two hundred men. Th an ks to our wonderful new-fangled principle of Nun-intervention —so rigidly applied in regard to formidable struggles like thone now raging in the North of E u rope between Denmark and Germany, and in North America be tween the Federals and the Confederates, het so In` diff,,,rently applied in instances like that wretched contest in China between the Teen" in gs and the Imperialists—thanks to this delightfully pl e , t i c and 1 etas tic principle of non-intervention the horrors of war 1 are Fin a fair way of being still indefinitely continued in 'teeth hemispheres. Diplomatic interference even, is shrunk from, as between the rival Powers at Richmond and at Washington. And so with a war expenditure of our own for many years past here at hems—for what good end GOD knows ! we are permitted to erjoy, at a safe distance, the luxury of beholding a four years' struggle of the most ssuguinar3 and revolting kind going oa unin terruptedly among our own kith and kindred, among a race who are of the number of our descendants. And—beholding that spectacle yonder in America, and beholding this kindred spectacle hero in the North of Europe, wo may now exult over the really and teully incalculable hlgsi;gs resulting from the principle of loterventian—we may now rejoice to our very hearts' content, over the mingled shame and igno miny secured to us by our left-handed adoption of a kind of blustering yet craven travestee of the Peace-e.t.an3 . -Price policy. The administration of relief to the destitute has always been one of the most serious perplexities which lie in the path of the legislator. To steer between the two dangers of encouraging idleness and improvidence and of neglecting the really needy all times been is a problem which has at most difficult an 3 d rt w s, hich, in spite of all our re efforts sto and solve, sexlpverim cannot yet be said to be satisfactorily settled. Even in our own metropolis we have frequent reason for doubting, how far our elaborate poor-law system fulfils its task; and the evils of the old plan, which fell into the opposite error from that now common, are still fresh in the memory. The condition of the poorer classes in the sister country is not such es to in,iuce us to suppose that the present arrange ments are perfect, and therefore Mr. HENNESSY deserved better success in endeavouring to excite some interest in the discussion of the Irish Poor Law. The hon. member, in moving the second reading of the Pcor Law (Irelano) Acts Amend ment Bill, explained that its object was to em power the Poor Law Commissioners of Ireland to allow out-door relief to be given to such classes of the able-bodied poor to such extent and in such manner as they may think fit. This permission does not seem at first sight to contain any objec tionable feature, being, in feet, copied from a similar clause in the English law ; but the prin ciple of out-door relief as applicable to Ireland is strongly objected to by a large number of persons. The principle is, as we know, readily recognised in this country, and complaints are often msde that the line is often drawn too tight, and that, in their desire to avoid the old mistake of encouraging vagrancy and rewarding thriftlessness, guardians and relieving officers often inflict unnecessary hard ships on the poor. It is quite evident that it is cheaper to give a little out-door relief than to take a whole family into the workhouse ; and at first sight it may therefore seem strange that the con dition of entering the House is generally in sisted on ; but the workhouse authorities know better, and are fully aware that the dislike to surrendering independence, to break ing up a home, and the consequent dis ruption of family ties, is sufficiently strong to keep a good many half-starved persons from apply ing to the parish. But the question remains whether these are not the very persons whom we should most wish to help ? It is the better class of the struggling poor who shrink from the " house." and its restraints ; those who have some . self-respect left, and who take a pride in their little belongings, and have a care for their families, and it is these who in times of sickness or distress have to bear sore straits to avoid the object of their dread. This argument may well be brought forward on behalf of the poor of Ireland, and Mr. HENNES3Y, in ad vocating the change ho proposed, especially dwelt upon the debasement which the Irish poor felt when they entered the Union. Ile was convinced, he said, that the law now in operation in Ireland for the so-called relief of the pour tended very much to promote that excessive emigration which is so much regretted, for the labouring man who had been forced to become an inmate of the workhouse was eager to leave the country. The social and moral interests of the poor should, as Mr. HEN NESSY very justly observed, be consulted in this matter of public relief, and certainly these are not adequately considered when the only resource from starvation is a " workhoutie, where they receive Worse than prison diet." There is no reason why harder measure should be dealt to the Irish than to the English poor; bat the plea against any altera tion of the law is that it would tend to raise the rates—a result much to be deprecated in so poor a country. But is it is really the object to keep the rates low, a very considerable saving might be made by paying a little attention to the manner in which the money now raised in poor rates is laid out since. On Mr. HENNESSVS showing, it appears that a very great amount of relief might be given with trifling expense, and in fact one of the prin cipal arguments which the hon. and learned gen• tieman adduced in favour of his measure was its economy. He anticipated that it would produce an actual reduction in the rates by assimilating the Irish poor law to the English system, since the cost of the maintenance and clothing per head is in England and Scotland about ls, 6d. per week, while in Ireland it is 2s. 3d., and, with other charges, amounts altogether to 33. 10d., so that more than twice the number might be re lieved en the English system. The increased cost is not occasioned by a different or more luxurious manner of treating the paupers —the secret lies in the official expenses. According to Mr. HEN NESSY'S statistics, in one of the unions in Donegal £333 was expended in the relief of the poor, £209 in the salaries and rations of the officers, and £123 for other expenses, so that for every eightpence expended on the poor sixpence was laid out on the officials. la another union the establishment charges were £590, while the amount spent on the poor was £502. After this it is certainly some what inconsistent to talk about heavy rates, and it is high time that some inquiry was made into the matter with a view to restoring a juster proportion of things. Mr. HENNESSY contrasted these return,. with those of the Union at Holyhead, selecting that part of England as being nearest Ireland. In Holyhead the poor rates amounted to £lO,OOO, or which £9,300 was expended on the poor, £H.S only being charged for official expenses. The heavy expenses, he contended, were mostly due to the indoor relief system, for the preportion of outdoor relief given in Ireland is only one-thirtieth against one-sixth in England. The rule is more oppressive applied to a poor county like Ireland, where the means of the labouring population are at beat scantier than it would be in our own land, and the benefit of giving a little temporary relief to out• door labourers when deprived of work by frost or other causes is very great to the ratepayers as well as to the recipients. In Ireland the families or such men are driven into the workhouse, and become too often pauperised, whereas by a more liberal and enlightened system the barrier between the children and pauperism need not be broken down. It is so light thing to familiarise our working men's f am ilies with the inside of a Union, and it is cer tainly not the way to lighten the burdens of the ratepayers. We hear a great deal about not in creasing the temptations to live on the public bounty, but gentleman who argue exclusively on this aide of the question will do well to consider whether in their anxiety to diminish the attractions o f the Union to the worn and tempted pauper they are not at the same time heightening the attraction!, of the gaol. The subject of " park-lane Improvement" ha of late engrossed much attention, and those who take an interest in the matter, or are desirous o' acquainting themselves with its detaib3, cannot di, better than peruse the letter of Mr. NELSON to thi Tine g of yesterday. This gentleman is averse to the suggestion recently made of opening Hamilton. place as a means of obviating the ex: as of traffic.; and in lien thereof, he considers that the change should be made before and not after Park-lane. There are no less than seven streets opening north wards between Park-lane and Berkeley street, at both which points the rush of traffic is truly " in. cessant." Mr. NELSON proposes that soma of these streets which are either culs do sac, or ending in inconvenient routes, should be opened. This pro posal appears to be a reasonable one, and the explanatiocs given on the subject seem to be satis factory. There is no doubt that for some time past there has been great negligence displayed in per• minting Piccadilly to remain in such a blocked up state. 'What is everybody's business is nobody's hes been proved by the discomfort and danger that have attended the traffic constantly taking place in this fevourite street of the metropolis. It is proposed , then, to continue Clarges-street northwards to come out opposite to Cuarles-street, Grosvenor-square, and this could be done in an economical manner. The other suggestion is to make South Audley-street go on to Piccadilly. By this means there would be a direct thoroughfare between Oxford-street and Piccadilly, and also another thorough fare from Piccadilly to Park-lane. Mr. NELSON deserves credit for his ingenious suge gestions, and it certainly appears that they contain more to recommend them than is often found in the proposals of a similar nature which continually abound. It is truly stated in this letter that these proposals will prove cheaper in the end than the plan of opening Hamilton-place, for the houses there are so much more valuable than in the other two localities, that large compensation will be obliged to be given to the owners. It must seem, besides, on consideration, that the change in Hamilton-place will not effect the henefit, nor secure all the advan tages that, at first eight, it appeared to promise. It will be but a temporary alteration, and not be in the right place for removing the traffic so as to en able those who suffer so much inconvenience there from to enjoy the requisite relief. It is to be wished that the Metropolitan Board displayed more ability and judgment in the consideration of these mats ters. They seem to exhibit neither discernment to recognise evils nor wit to remove them when others have found them out. The task of improving the streets and accommodating the thoroughfares of a great metropolis ought not, however, to bs so lightly spoken of, as is too often the osse. It was the boast of an Emperor i❑ past days that he found Rome brick and left it marble, and this was not an unreasonable theme for self congratulation, but the spirit which prompted the men of old times to improve their capitals has never rightly been comprehended or sufficiently partici pated in by those who regulate the streets of London. We have all heard of the princess and the crumpled rose leaf, and, absurd es it may seem to some in theory, there are many now-a-days who carry it out in practice. Perhaps one of the most absurd forms in which this ultra.refiaement and excessive particularity has of late shown itself has been the crusade that has been made against street music. The humorous remarks that were made during the discussion that took place the otter evening showed hocv utterly unfounded were the complaints made. It it, however, to be observed that in some respects the provisionEnof this bill are most unfair they con tain hard and harsh measures against the itinerant musicians, and are quite at variance with the general principles of English law. It is a pity that pe pie become so infatuated about a subject that really is of so little importance. In the first place, many of those who complained so bitterly of the nuisance inflicted upon them by the " org In grin. tiers" are absent from town during a great part of the year, and it is most unreasonable to interfere with others in their mode of gaining an honest liveli hood. Sir J. TRELAWNY spoke out plainly and to the point when he said that the " bill was a piece of peddling legislation," and truly declared that the rolling of carriages at night was a great annoy ance to some peop,e. It is idle to say that this bill only sends the musicians from one part of the town to another, because in any neighbourhood there may be persons who are possessed of this horror against street music, and hence the measure must be regarded as a tyrannical provision which sacrifices the interests of a humble class, and the pleasure of many poor persons to the infatuated prejudieesof a few privileged individuals. It is impossible to procure quiet in its reality in London, and these who require, or fancy that they require, absolute calm for the prosecution of their studies, should betake themselves elsewhere, for es fast as they have put down one nuisance another will start up, and their energies will be consumed in the struggle for rest, while they will be as far off their object as ever. Tae promoters of this bill have succeeded in passing a clause which the Attorney General has called " to:ally unprecedented," and it is greatly to be regretted that their zeal, which is indeed worthy of a better cause, did not show more moderation in its demands, and exhibit more reti cence in its judgment. Considerate persons will not pursue their avocations the more peacefully be cause the stringent regulations of the law have driven the poor musician from street to street, till in despair he ventures to defy its mandates, and finds himself in a prison. When released from thence, who shall say what his future course may be ? It is always an unwise act on the part of legislators to strain a point, so that a conviction is almost sure to take place, and these social innova tors seem resolved that, come what may, the organ grinder mu s t b e guilty, and that the sooner ho be brought to condign punishment the better. The Bishop of London has appointed July 7th nor the annual distribution, at the Society of Arts, of the prizes and certificates in religious knowledge gained by the members of literary and mechanics' institutions, young men's societies, working men's clubs, and evening. classos, in union with the Metropolitan Adult Education Association." PROSPECTS OF A GENERAL ELECTION.—The Parliament House—the ctiet sF at Gf the Whigs in this city—is in motion. For the past three or four days every horse-hair is it has been on end. There has been a running to and fro such as has not been observed since the last general election, and an anxiety which iniicates a feeting the very opposite of comfortable. Out of doors, too, certain supposed leaders or authorities among the Whigs are be coming quite bland and courteous, if not positively obse quious, to those that at any other time they would not care to recognise or remember. The Tories Lok jubilant, and rumours are current that in the event of a dissolution they mean to contest this city against its present roisrepresenta fives, or whoever else may appear in the field.--Caledonian Zercuiy, A POLICLMAN SHOT BY A BURGLAR. —On Tuesday night two county constables, named Hutton and Waldron, were on duty in If ale-road, Hale-head, when they met a men of suspicious appearance. in order to have a better view of the man Waldron struck a match, and then the officers saw that he fully answered the description of a man who was wanted for a burglary. Waldron seized him by the back of the neck, when the prisoner drew a pistol and fired. The shot, however, missed; and he almost immediately fired another pistol, this time with more mo ms, the ball striking the officer in the right side. A des perate struggle then took place between the prisoner end the two officers, Hotton,though wounded, still assisting his brother officer. While he was doing so, the prisoner stabbed hint several timas with a chisel. After consider able difficulty the prisoner was handcuffed. The constable lies in a dangerous state. NATIONAL SEAKSPERE COMMITTEE.—Mr. Ger man Reed has liberally contributed £25 50.., being the entire receipts of one night at the Gallery of Illustration; Mr Sothern, of the Haymarket Theatre, has subscribed and Mr Euckstone, the lessee of the tame theatre, has announced his intention of 8U of Sla4k*ua !Lnuient Eztl, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA. NEW YORK, JUNE 21 (Evening). Gen. Grant's whole army was before Petersburg on the 17th instant. Oa the following date Grant assaulted the Confederate works, but was repulsed, suffering a loss of from 6,000 to 3,000 in killed and wounded. He maintains, however, his entrenched line within a mile of the city. The Confederate line forms a semicircle in front of Petersburg, the flank resting on the Appomatox. Lee's whole array is supposed to bo at Petersburg. Smith's corps left Petersburg, and returned to Bermuda Hundreds. The Confederates have reoccupied their position in front of Bermuda Hundreds. Butler's troops returned after having destroyed several miles of the Richmond and Petersburg railroad. Sheridan has advanced within five miles of Gor donsville, where the Confederates were strongly entrenched. Sheridan reports that on the 12• h inst. he had defeated the Confederates at Trevellian station, and destroyed several miles of the Virginia Central Railroad south of Gordonsville. Hunter is reported to be within six miles of Lynchburg. On the 13th inst. a large Confederate cavalry force was reported to be advancing up the Shenan doah Valley. Sherman reports that the flanks of Johnstone's army have been considerably withdrawn. Johnstone still holds Kennisaw Mountain as the apex of his position. Secretary Stanton has issued an order that five Confederate general officers shall be placed under fire, before Charleston, in retaliation for Federal officers having been pieced under Federal fire in that town. The steamer Searen has been captured. The North American was intercepted off Cape Race, NEW YORK, June 23 (Evening). (By Telegraph to iliite.x.) On Monday Bierney's corps b)mbarded Peters burg at a range of 1,200 yards—.doing, however, little damage. Lee reports that the Richmond and Petersburg Railway has been repiired. Richmond pipers report that Hunter's attack on Lynchburg on Saturday bad been repulsed. Ewell has left to oppose Huo:er. Sneridan has returned to For: Monroe. Shermalo reports severe fignti3g on Sunday,whn Howard gained an important position and repulsed the Confederates with a loss of 700 men who at tempted to retake it, The Confederate advance up the Shenandoah Valley has been denied. The Chicago Democratic •ConNention has been postponed until August. The Peace Democracy has resolved to support no presidential candidate who is in favour of the war. Grant's whole army is before Petersburg He wilt• repulsed on the 17th and 18Th with heavy loss it an assault on Petersburg,. He maintains nis en trenched line within a mile from Petersburg. Oa the 2 ►th Generals Grant and BuTler and Admiral Leo held a consultation on the fl..g-ship in the James River. An important fresh movement by Grant was progressing on Wednesday, the 22d inst, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Juue 23 (Morning). Money tighter. Gold exeied at 210. NEW YORK, Jane 23 (Evening). Money tight. Gold had advanced since the passing of the Gold Bit! to 230, but has race de dined to 210. Exchaugo on London, 230. Ttie market is excited, and the financial situation har caused much apprehension in commercial circles. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 132 : 1—Illinois shares, 128—Erie, 114-0 per cent US. Bond Twenty-fives, 105. Cotton advancing—middling Upland, 145 c.—flour,.—flour, wheat, and corn advancing. Provisions dull. Coffee and sugar good inquiry. Molasses steady. Petroleum (crude), 461 e., refined 70c, The b3nkers of New York have sent a deputa tion a modific a ti on of the don to Washington to urge Gold Bill. FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 1 (NlorplOg). The Moniteur of this morning says :-- "A telegram from General Martimprey, dated the 27 , h ult., announces that all the tribes of the Flittas, who were still in a state of r e volt, hay' been driven into their last refuges and h a ve surren dered unconditionally, 4,000 prisoners are retained by us as a guarantee for their submission, " General Martimprey was to embark on the 29th ult. at Mortagenem to return to Algiers." The Constitutionnel oF to-day publish es a n article on the praise bestowed by Earl Russell in the House of Lords upon the Emperor N apo l e on, con• eluding thus :—" if we point out this man ifestation of the British Cabinet, it is because it see ms to us of great value, and we congratulat e ourse lves from the double point of view of patriotism a nd pleasure at the prospect of a general peace ; in th e first place because we are happy to see our Government re spected, and in the second, because we are convinced that the good and courteous relations between France and England are the surest guar antee foi I he interests of civilisation." BOURSE, Juno 30. The riponse de primes (option) was made at 66t. 85c, i o r the l'hree per Cents. The market has b-en fi, tri . Threes un varied at 65f. 75c., and M u bili er a t 1,051 f. 25c The market closed as folluws 4) per Cents 93 25 t)o. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 80 Credit 111ohilier 1052 50 Do, end month 1051 25 Bank Shares 3302 50 Credit 14 anew 1245 Roman Italian L0an...... 69 8 Jo. end month.... 69 ot , Ditto Threes , ..... —— New blesicaa .... 56 50 "usalai, ........ Nustrian ........ — - 'l , Ethi,la Thresh. , .. 51 25 ; - lome DAht ..... . 50 Deferred ........ 45i EtALLWAyt. Cash. Account. 8 65 .. 805 -- 990 .. 990 881 25 .. 880 Orioand ~ Northern .... Lyons and kleditcrranean New ditto Southern Western Eastern .... 640 .. 648 75 497 50 .. 500 463 75 50 365 - 365 - 402 50 .. 406 25 633 75 .. 531 25 420 422 60 562 50 .. 562 50 250 - .. 250 -- • _ Sardinian Austrian North of Spain Saragosaa Ditto to Barcelona THE DANO-GERMAN WAR. COPENHAGEN, J UN E 29, 10 14 A M. Last night an attack Was made by the enemy on Aisen After a violent cent,st they succeeded in effecting a landing on the Kjaer peninsula. Our loss has been severe, and cur troops have now withdrawn between liikebal and Sonderskov. PASSAGE OF THE ALSEN SOUND BY THE 13itUSSIANS. FLENsBURG, JULY 1. The passage of the A:sen Sound by the main body of the Prussians was cffected in 120 boats, conveying 3,000 at a time. The troops landed between Schwabcok and the most southerly point of Satrunhoiz. Notwithstanding the sharp fire of the Danerip their tr.‘lll3;zAtterics were Ulzin. The Rolf Krake was twice repnleed and was set on fire. Two thousand four hundred Dines, including one hundred officers, were taken prisoners. Colonel Kaufmann was severely wounded. The Danish loss is severe. The Prussian loss is three officers killed and 17 wounded, with 300 men killed and wounded. LITERATURE, Charles Dickens's New Series. 'Story, Our Mutual Fri:7nd. No. 3. i3y Charles Diekeui, Uhaptnau a n d Hall. Chapter Nine of Book One, page 84 of Numlent Three, has at length brought the hypercritics the explanation of Mr. Dickens's title —the title flouted by those same hypercritics as not only enigmatical, but ungrammatical. The elumdation of the little mystery is complete and triumphant. And, remem ber, it is one not interpolat e d by an after-thought for the purpese of explaining away a difficulty but—as the very fact of the phrase being the title of the book plainly enough indicates on the surface of it— appearing quite as a matter of course in the pre arranged flew of the narrative. "Our Mutual Friend," then, is the phrase by which Mr. B: ffie—(a strictly ungrae matical personage as all the world knows by this time)—the irnrase by which Noddy Beffin of the flower, and the dust binna, and the ash urduntains at H trmony Jail, designates (while addressing Mrs. Witter) that mysterious oeaupant of the first floor at Wilfer's, Mr. John Rokesmith to wit! "I may call him Our Mutual Friend," said Mr. Boffin. " Whet sort of fellow is Our Mutual Friend, now ? Do you like him ?" And so forth. What sort of fellow we take him to be, we have already, now a couple of months ago, when noticing the first number, pretty plainly indicated. But of that—not a syllable more shall we write henceforth until our author makes, at his own good time and pleasure, his own revelation, To say that the number before us—No. 3, just issued with the July magazines—is crammed full of good things, of intensely humorous whims and oddities, is, as usual, with any instalment of a serial tale from the same Master Hand, to give ex pression to a mere matter of fact. Specimens of some few among the good things, however, we take it,wiil be infinitely preferable, given one by one, than any simple statement as to the fact of their being here in the lump. Young Blight, the dismal boy who is in his small person the " managing clerk, junior clerk, common law clerk, conveyancing clerk, chancery clerk, every refioementand department ot clerk," in Mr. Mortimer Lightwood'e (the soli - ci teen) chambers in the Temple is the first good thing we come to in this number—and he for that matter is thoroae d ady good from beginning to end. Y. ung Bligteis interview with Old Boffin must be turned and read as a whole, in its entirety. Ditto the ' interview that afterwards takes place between Noddy Buffo and Mortimer Lightwood. As the feemer is leaving the latter's chambers at the end of it, enter the young blase' barrister, Eugene Wrayburn ! Who—on being told by Beffin " Nothing like work. Look at the Bees !"—pro eats (as a biped) against being referred to the beet,, to the dogs, the spiders, or the camels ! "I freely admit," he says, " that tne camel, for instance, is an excessively temperate person. But he has several stomachs to entertain himself with, and I have only one." As to the bees, however, he maintains that he whole case is assumed. " reey work—ye-es ! ut asks Eugene, 6 don't you think they rather over do ii ? They work so much more than the) :;eed—they make so much more than they can eat—they are so incessantly boring and buzzing at their one idea till Death comes upon them—that, don't you think they overdo it ?" Noddy Boffia's4 atreet-talk with Mr. Rokesmith (whd offers himself as his SeLretar ) is capital—particularly where at the outset Mr. Boffin is divided in his douots as to whether the stranger will propose a game of skirties, ;)r meet a country gentleman, or produce an article jewellty—Noddy, at the mere cotjecture of such carrying his Familiar Spirit, the Big Stick, in his arms, as Punch carries his, ready for any emergency. Yet more droll, however, is the description, in the next chapter, of the Boffioa' turn irut in a four wheel chaise—liable to hiccup itself apart at the crossings —drawn by a hammer-headed old horse and driven by a hammer headed young man —the latter "entombed by a jobbing tailor of the district in a perfect Sepulchre of coat and gaiters, healed with ponderous buttons." The juvenile chaff of the neighbourhood, as this imposing turn-out rolls into the street—such as "Dawn with the dust, Buf fin !" and the like —prepares no, as by an appro priate flourish of trumpets, for the morning tails made by those wonderful newly-installed carriage folk. Calls—first upon the Milveys—afterwards upon the Wilfers. The poor curate's family of the Milveys consisting of " a quite young -nan, expen stvely educated and wretchedly paid, with a quite young wife (charmingly emphatic in her conversa tion), and half-a-dozen quite young children." Veonderful fun—on the Boffins' getting (after ;rent perseverance on the part of the e.immer- headed young man entombed in the 8-p:ochre) into the Wilfer's little hall—inex pressibly ridiculous fun, is made of the three pairs of listening legs upon the stairs above—Mrs. Wilfer's legs, Miss Belhee legs, Mr. George Samp eon'a legs—of the strained attention on the part of those same three pair of legs—and, in the end, of their excited flight. Tne meaning of the two visits, hero to the Milveys, there to the Wilfers, being simply this, that at the curate's the Boffins ire in search of an orphan (to adopt and re name as John Hermon), while at the clerk's they are bent upon hospitably inviting to their habitat Miss Bella, the dissappointed wife, set apart by old Harmon for—tire supposed deceased. The tenth chapter of Book 1., closing this third number of " Our Mutual Friend," makes us disagreeably acquainted with an odious 'couple,. to wit, the mature young gentleman and the mature young lady, previously met at the Veneer tug's, and now married Alfred Latnmle, with the 4 ingery whiskers, and Sopnroeia, née Akershem, powder and ail ! A horrid pair —only tolerable in. 'feed as we track them along the sands, during their eoney moon, on the coast of the Isle of Wight, only barely tolerable as we track them there, and thus tolerable simply for the' casual mention of Mr. Lammle (previously spoken of as being "rather like a spurious Mephistopheles, and an unecknowledged member of that gentlemen's family") the casual mention of him here as he traits his stick after aim along the wet sand, "as if lie were of the Mephistopheles family indeed, and walked with a drooping tail!" Numberless admirably clever touches, bring oat vividly to view the incidents and the people at the wedding of his wretched twain at the Veneerings, Twemlow's increasing bewilderment as to the Veneering's in imacies—the panegyric upon Shares as the Be All and End All of City Life—(" Where does he come from P Shares. Where is he going to P Shares. What are his tastes ? Shares. Has he any principles? Shares.")—horrible old Lady Tip pins's checking off the bridal array and its para. phanalia—that delicious record in one of Dickens's maivellous parentheses of that same old Lady Tippins's dead husband's having been (" knighted in mistake for somebody else by his Mejesty King George the Tbird, who, while per forming the ceremony, was graciously pleased to observe What, what, what ? Who, who, who ? Why, why, why ?' ")—the wedding breakfast at Veneeringa with the Buff,:rs whispering Thir-ty Tnou-sand Pon-ads! " with a smack and relish suggestive of the very fieest oysters"—the Pokey Unknown, amazed to find how intimately they know the Veneerings, piucltingup their spirits, tolaing their arms, and beginning to contradict him before breakfast—the said combined unknown, after the bridal pair have gone, returning to the gorgeousdrawing-rooms, and there doing " malig nant things with their legs to ottomans, and taking is much as possible oat of the splendid furniture"— all these and how much more in the way of inimitable touches of the riche; raciest humour still continue to render the pages of" Our Mutual Friend" not unworthy additions to that beloved shelf in the I\l4timal book•roun3 ) on which stand ' ThE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MLA' 1, 184 ranged in radiant array the well-thumbed volumes of the Boz library, Can you Forgive her? By Anthony Trollope. No. VII. Ch , pman and Hail. From the beginning to the end of the number we are with Alice V:vasour at Matching Priory. About the only incident in the whole instalment is that of the moonlit 'talk between Alice and the Lady GI" Lora in the Priory ruins—to the exceed -10; vexation of Mr. Plantagenet Palliser. Lady Glencora is seemingly upon the very brink of a fathomless pool of trouble, in which she appears to meditate precipitating herself suicidally. Mr. Bott, the red whiskered giant of an MT., renders himself more odious than ever. So also does old Lady Midlothian, who mekes her ap pearance for a brief interval at Matching Priory, with the intention of rating Alice, there, however, getting rated herself by Alice instead. Mos: of the characters in the story are very odious, and the situations, into which these are thrown, often intolerable, almost sometimes to the extent of being disgusting. Instance—Alice's causeless jilting of the man she loves, and to whom, as such, she was, reasonably enough, engaged to be married. In stance—sill more filgrant ly —the unlawful love yet cherished by tee Lady Giencora for her former suitor Burgo—.even though she, Lady Glencora, is by this time the wife of Mr. Palliser. The French Press on the Conference. The Ministerial statements in Parliament have not given rise to any difference of opinion in Paris. All agree in pronouncing them the most humiliat ing confession of impotence that could be expected, even on the part of a Ministry whose abject pusil lanimity had already reduced the prestige of Eng land to zero. The Constztutionnel has a very able letter from M. Paulin Lirnayrac, in which the writer points oat with unanswerable logic that the English Government knew perfectly well when the Conference met that France would not go to war, and therefore that it is but a poor-spirited, mean, and sneaking excuse to allege the inaction of France as au excuse for their own. The Constitutionnel says :—" The British Cabinet pronounces unequi vocally in favour of peace. It dces not intend to go to war to protect the continental possessions ot Denmark, and thus leaves the German Powers to act within those limits. It is only in the event of war being transferred to the Danish Islands, of Copenhagen beirg attacked, or King Christian being muds pr.soner, that England would depart from ber reserve, and reconsider the matter. These declarations m2de are precise, but are they prudent also ? Do they not give too wide a field to one of the two bel ligerent parties, which now knows how far it can go without provoking the intervention of Eng land, and is it not even told in positive terms that it may not go farther ? Moteover, are these d-cla rations in accord with those previously male ? and does not the motive for this new attitude, as ex plained by Lord Palmerston, when he said that England was not disposed to bear the whole bur den of the enterprise unaided,' appear more like a Pretext than a reason ? Has not the Cabinet of St. James's long known the feeling of the French Government, always sympathising with the wi but recognising the legitimacy of national aspira tions, and having no interest of honour or any ot those material interests which connect England with tno Dano-German conflict ? The attitude and language of France have been such from the very origin of the conflict that no mistake on the sub ject has ever been possible. All Europe admits this, and the . English Ministers candidly a=cknowledged the fact when, in suggesting arbitration as a means of ending the dispute, they pro,Josed t'ae Emperor Napoleon as arbitrator. Every one knows that we nave rendered full justice to the last efforts of Earl Russell and Lord Palmerston, but it is imposeiba , for Us ❑ot to remark the distance existing between the resolutions which those statesmen have just taken, and the policy which, by the press, by public speeches, and by despatches, excited passions which it was not to satisfy and indulged iu menaces which were to remain without effect." The Pays is instructed to hold forth in the same sense, and, in addition, points out that England, or rather the English Government, has taken up a most peculiar position, aggressive towards both bellige rents, scolding and threatening both by turns, trying to protect Denmark by bullying Germany, and endeavouring to restrain Germany by bullying Denmark. The Pays also points out (not without. some satisfaction) that England "appears to have laboured to unite passions, to smother resentment, and to strengthen conflicting pretensions. She is reaping what she has sown. At Copenhagen spite and distrust. At Berlin and Vienna hatred and contempt. It is now her shame to see that her promises henceforth will not be regarded more seriously than her threats." At Paris, the Pays might have added, the feeling is contempt, largely mingled with exultation at the hurnidation of a rival. The Opinion Nationale is more vigorous and earnest :—" It the humiliation of England were calculated to cause us joy we should 11,..ve but little to desire. It ❑ow stands recorded that the protec ion of England means nothing—that her alliance ' is powerless—that her name At the foot of a treaty is no guarantee—and that the map of Europe may be constructed without consulting her views any more than those of the dueny of Baden the kingdom of Wurtemberg. Those who have E 0 long been wearied with the interminable enumera ration of the merits end superiority of England could easily turn the tables now, and point out the sad spectacle of that decline—the destinies of Eng land left to the decision of the wits, an aristocracy in its dotage, an unwieldy middle class bursting with fat and egotism (This is text uel—e. g , crevant de graiese de richessre, etd egoisnze); a people so absorbed by money-making as not to have time to see that England is struck from the roll of the great powers—all this might afford ample scope to the jealous malignity of the rivals of England. But, unfortunately, we remember that the humi liation now endured by England, we suffered ourselves last year. What is now taking place is but tit for tat. L►st year, by refusing her co-operation, England forced U 9 to iliac lion; now, France by bbsteining condemns England to deep degradation. Last year wo wert corupelted to undergo the polished im, ertinence o/ Prince Gortschekeff; we DOW oblige her to bow beneath the coarse insolence of Count Bismirk. is not this a policy worthy of two great countries P Does it not give them claims to the gratitude of humanity and civilization ?" The Patric is still more bitter. In an article headed, " Sauvons la eaisse ! " i.e.," Save the cash box," it charges England with b, jug actuated by purely sordid motives, and predicts for her the fats of Venice and Holland, and also other countries which place their material welfare far above con siderations dictated by honour and duty. The Debats expresses itself in these terms " The whole meaning and bearing of the reserve made by England amounts to this—For thc- Cabinet to believe the moment come not to inter vene in favour of Denmark, but to deliberate on tht question as to whether it shall do so or not, Denmark must be attacked either in her islands, in the heart, of her States, in her capital, or King Christian must be a prisoner io. the hands of the Germans ! That is the final decision—the great secret, the manifesto of Lord Palsae:ston ! The Daily News appears not less edified ; alone the Post and the Herald utter an indignant protest." It is remarked that the second series of guess invited to Fontainebleau contains not an single Englist, name. THE " TIMES" AND THE VOTE OF CENSURE. — A critio ought to have a long memory. he Times yes terday was very sarcastic upon the terms of Mr Disraeli , motion, and falls especially foul of the expression tha. " the just influence of England has been lowered." Tbt limes asserts that there is no such thing as lowering or lessening a " just influence," since if not exerted it cease, to exist. Mr Disraeli has doubtless laughed to himsel that the leading journal can extract nothing worse out 0 his motion then a bit of verbal refining. Ha will tang , the more heartily if he turns to the 22:2r.,e.2 of June 21, tti , first leader of which asserts that " if ibis wunlry allover the war to begin again the just infidi lace of England be wiciasiy impaird,"—Liperlo:4 Dai'Y (*Curter. eirttlitn° HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, June 30. Earl Granville arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with her Kijesty and the Royal family. Toe Qieen, accompanied by their R o y a l High nesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, wuiked and drove in the grounds this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, attended by Mr Buff, took a carriage thing. Their Royal Highnesses the Prirce and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Helena, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, Mdlle. de Grancy, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. B. Be Roe, and Captain Vo❑ Westerweller, arrived at the Castle at half. pact two o'clock from Buckingham Palace. Sir George Grey had an audience of the Queen, and introduced the Bishop of Peterborough to her IVl,jesty, who did homage on being appointed to that see. The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Deputy Clerk of the closet, atLended fib well as the Lurd itl The Prince and Princess of Wales, The Prioco and Prtoctss of Wales drove to Harrow yesterday tnorning, and were present at the USUAL proceedings of Speech DI) , at the school. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards took lun cheon with the head master. In attendance were the Marchioness of Carmar then, the Earl of Mount R - Igecumbe, Lieut.-Gene. ralllys, and Lieut.-Colonel Keppel. Their Royal HighneEses the Prince and Princess of Wales.inteud honouring Her Majesty's Theatre with their presence to,ruorrom night, on which occa-ion Beethoven's chef d'cewurc "Fidelio," will be performed, Tne Earl and Countess of A , betnarle have left London for their country residence, Quidaiham Hall, Nor folk. The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson en. tertained a party of friends at dinner yesterday evening at their residence in Belgrave-squ4re. ftie Eirl and Countess De Grey 'entertained a select party at dinner, last evening, at their residence in Carlton-gardeus. Viscountess Palmerston will have an assembly to-morrow evening, and on the evening of the following SatuLday, July 9. The Prince and Priccets Louis of Hess© will honour the Duke and Duchess of Manchester with their company at dinner to •morrow evening, at their Graces' residence in Great Stanhope -street. His R )vdt High ‘e,is tr, Field-M4rshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a lez•ee of one o'clock on Wed nesday next. Tore marriage of Mr Frank Thynne, eldest son of the Rev. Lot d and Lady John Tnynne, with Miss Sheridan, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Brinaley Sher dan, was solemnised yesterday morning at Westminster Abbey in the presence of a large and distinguished circle. BANK OF FRANCE. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) PARIS, June 30. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor. responding figures of the previous accounts : JUNE 30. JUNE 23. Da. t. C. t 0. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182 500 000 Profits in add it ion toCapit a l , , (Art. 8 law June 9 1857) 5,003,954 29 4,991,438 53 Reserve in tao Bank and nt, branches Reserve in lands d property 4,b09,000 4,000,003 Notes in circulation 766,60,875 720,243,375 Balk notr6 to order and re ceipt. payable at sight 7,186,004 18 5,737,420 49 Treasury he . cur. creditor 94.647,095 94 81,16,3,691 54 Currey t ccounts—Paria Do. branch-banks Dividends pay ~bl.; Disc amt. and sundry interests 1,553,902 48 23,013,684 25 Re-discounts of the last nix woulha .. Sundries 1,278,5,9,51.7 t.)3 1,205,946,649 94 CL Cash in hand and branch banks 277,i744,816 46 280,511,406 57 Coinwerbial bills ay. rdue 367,167 66 471,i44 42 Commercinl billa discounted not yei due. ,:T,,.38;,824,063 17 309.132,f293 86 Do. branch.-banks 291,781,375 285,431,475 Advances on deposits of . Do. branch. banks.... 2,911,600 2,743,700 Advances on Frenchpublie securities Do, branch-banks 9,845,2..0 9,631,710 Ad vaut. es ou pail way shares ano debrntu? os 30,260,400 30,335,100 Do. branch-banks 1 9 753 9 ,660 19,615,000 Adv , oaces on Credit Fon cier Bonds 356,500 346 500 Do. branch-banks .... 396,500 390,700 Advances to the State (Cony« n. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Guvt. Steck Reserve 12,8 , ,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do disposable Rentes innnubilisees (Law June 9, 1857) ... 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank Lauded property, bran he ,, Expenses of nianagme.t 9.972 61 2,245,122 20 Sundries .. 4,395, , ,14 10 10,663,226 81 1,278,509,517 03 1,205,946,540 94 Certified by the Honorary Vier-President of the Coancil of State, Governor of the Pan!;, AD. VDITRY. Shipping Disasters at Liverpool. Yesterday morning a smart gale blew over Liverpool from the north-west, and was unfortunately attended with serious accidents, The storm was particularly severe at the mouth or the river, and in the channels approaching thereto. A schooner named the Happy Return, from Dublin to Liver pool, in endeavouring to enter the river was driven into the north-east end of the turbo bank about 4 o'clock in he morning. The captain's wire, and three of the crew were washed overboard by the heavy seas that broke over her. The Cunard steamer British Queen, Captain Kelly, from Havre to Liverpool, was passing at the time, and the cap tain, observing the distress of the schooner, ordered a boat to put out to her. A boat, stated to be a lifeboat, was lowered, and manned by six men, under the command of Mr George Morrison, the second t facer. In endeay..urin,g to approach the vessel the boat was struck by a heavy sea, capsized, and five of her crew drowned:. Mr Morrison and the other seaman were saved by another boat irom the Bri• tish Queen. In the meantiir e information wire received at one of the Liverpool lifeboat stations, and a boat imme diately put out and succeeded in reacnin,g the wreck, and_ rescuing the captain and one seam an still remaining on board. Many other vessels have sta.atkairAtad itljurits to hull and rigging, but no further fatal casualties were reported. The wind continued very rough until about neon, 11 hen it began'to moderate. The following report of the occurrence was posted in the Underwriters' room curing the day : " Tire British Queen, screw steamer, Kelly, irons Havre, when coming in this morning, saw the schooner Happy Return run on the north-east side of the Burbo. the steamer stopped by h. r and lowered a boat to save the crew, nut it did not succeed in getting to the wreck. They then lowered a second and larger boat, which gut to the Happy Return, after great risk, and while tatting the crew nom her, as they jumped from the wreck in to the water, the rope attached to part of the wreck broke, anti in veering the boat round towards the steamer she was struck by a heavy sea, which flied and capsized her, drowning five of the seven men from the steamer, who manned her, and two of the Happy Return's crew." Owing to the state of the weather the Royal Mersey Regatta did not take place, IMPORTANT FOP SKIN DISEASES.—The perfumed iuiptturous soap which is prepqre.d by M. Motlard, of Regent-street, is really worthy of the attention of those troubled with any cutaneous eruptions or rheumatic affec tions. This sulphur soap is highly recommended by the i'aeuity, both as a remedy and as a preventative. The cull y hitherto has been to combine sulphur with vegetable oils; this difficulty has been entirety overcome by Mollard, and he has produced a perfumed curative soap with all the requisite medical qualities, and well adapted to •he toilet table of the most fastidtous, M. Mallard bas also published a practical essay on his preparations, Which may read with interest and profit, containing, as i t does, the opinion of the most eminent of the feculty in sulphur, as deed for the many forms of cutaneous eruptions to which he "flesh is heir CHIMING . CLOCZ —" Th 3 larg,•e cink in the centre transept is a fi.,e piece of inch Mani, o no o f the l a r gest ;hillitug."—Morninz Post, 6ept. 2J, li6z . c oc ks by the 11 st artis s of the day for the erawing . di n i ng , And bed room l.brary, hall, staircase, bracket, carriage, railway, warehouse, e unting-house, musical, and astronomical , nwoh an i with descri . 'Lio ns and urret clocks specially estimated for. 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